Quotes About Career

I would love to do more Hindi films, but I am very laid-back that way and wouldn't go looking for more films.

I would love to do better in mainstream Hindi films, but one thing I must say is that my best experience so far has been in the Punjabi film industry, where I've been around for more than 11 years.

If you are working in the Hindi film industry, you cannot escape playing a police guy more than three times.

I began my career with Gujarati and Hindi plays in 1973.

I was about 19 when I began working for Hindi films.

If I had my way, I would have started my career with Hindi films.

The fault lay with those who had brought him up to the church as to the profession of medicine, or the bar, or the drapery business—as if it lay on one level of choice with other human callings.

the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.

Sobrellevaba con dignidad esa vida absurda de oficinista porque sabía que no sería para siempre. No sabía cómo ni cuándo, eso estaba en manos de Dios, pero tenía el convencimiento de que en algún momento podría librarse de sus ataduras. Después de todo, siempre podía <>. Tal vez algún día, incluso, llegara a ganarse la vida escribiendo y entonces sería totalmente libre del olor nauseabundo del dinero.

graduate college, win Pam, get job, make babies, move ahead in job, forget former feeling of special destiny...

What is my purpose? To get paid. How do I accomplish my purpose more efficiently?

I could have been a surgeon too,' he thought to himself. And owned a car like that. Probably not a surgeon, but it was a fact that he had almost become a doctor. He had set out to study medicine and sometimes felt a hankering for the medical profession. If his father hadn't died three years too soon …

Sono persone che si danno arie da borghesi. Io non mi sognerei mai di far studiare mio figlio da avvocato

I'm beginning to wish you had to work for a living.

As evidenced by his Frankfurt enterprise, however, he wanted to pursue to the end the possibility of an academic career which might have been able to provide his intellect with material backing. When we took leave of each other, he happened to be rather optimistic in that regard. He did not know as yet that "intellect cannot be habilitated"—to quote Erich Rothacker's wickedly insolent statement about him.

When I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, How can I combine career and family?

I have so much inertia and so little initiative that very possibly if you had not kept me from taking my degree I would have, well, not taken to the practice of medicine, but at any rate to pathological psychology and you don't know how little I like pathological psychology, and how all medicine bores me.

As an actor, you always feel like you're not going to work again. You're always unsure about how things are going to work out, and you start thinking you're going to just fade off into the distance.

If this acting thing doesn't work out, maybe I could be a blogger.

It's always difficult to work out on location, away from home, but that's the actor's life. You go where the work is.

If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.

There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team.

Coming in, I had no idea basketball would be a career for me, but I grew 7 inches in college and was fortunate to have a great career in the NBA. The experience taught me about service, what our great country was built on, the sacrifices people have made, how to work together and trust the people around you to accomplish a great goal.

Film is an amazing art form, but so is life. When your career and your life can work together, and one can support the other, it's just great.